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In what some have termed “too late capitalism”, we are constantly promised seamless experiences—effortless flows of information, frictionless consumption and an ever-expanding horizon of progress. Yet, instead of smoothly gliding forward, we often find ourselves trapped, spinning in place, ensnared by weird coils. The exhibition bottom’s just another floor examines this unsettling condition: an almost hallucinatory “stuckness” that rubs against the glossy finish painted by tech oligarchs, leaving us dazed within a maze.
The exhibition invokes this feeling of slow-motion friction, a state of being stuck that exceeds mere inertia. It’s an eerie, yet somehow deeply stupid repetition reminiscent of the internet-conjured phenomenon of “backrooms”, where every potential escape route quietly loops back into yet another version of the same creepy, corporate non-place. An apt metaphor, perhaps, for our numerous attempts at offering seeming alternatives to contemporary power structures…
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In what some have termed “too late capitalism”, we are constantly promised seamless experiences—effortless flows of information, frictionless consumption and an ever-expanding horizon of progress. Yet, instead of smoothly gliding forward, we often find ourselves trapped, spinning in place, ensnared by weird coils. The exhibition bottom’s just another floor examines this unsettling condition: an almost hallucinatory “stuckness” that rubs against the glossy finish painted by tech oligarchs, leaving us dazed within a maze.
The exhibition invokes this feeling of slow-motion friction, a state of being stuck that exceeds mere inertia. It’s an eerie, yet somehow deeply stupid repetition reminiscent of the internet-conjured phenomenon of “backrooms”, where every potential escape route quietly loops back into yet another version of the same creepy, corporate non-place. An apt metaphor, perhaps, for our numerous attempts at offering seeming alternatives to contemporary power structures…
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